#slate

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#how #line #look #obliged #particular

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#any #art #attitude #audience #because

If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin. ↗

— Katherine Harris

#electing #essence #going #legislate #sin

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music. ↗

— Dan Hawkins

#always #band #basically #been #enemy

We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated! ↗

— Peter Hook

#come #find #finding #good #had

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#comments #does #eight #everything #full-time

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#did #find #meaning #myths #only

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#cannot #existence #legislate #out #problems

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#create #into #new #people #place

That's the dirty little secret of Mormon growth. Lots of baptisms don't necessarily translate into long-term membership. ↗